Photographic-camera support.



No. 65l,52|. Patented lune l2, I900. W. R. BlGSBY-CHAMBERLIN.PHOTOGRAPH) CAMERA SUPPORT (Application filed Apr. 18, 1898.)

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- fur/@772??? ATENT FFICEEQ \VILLIAM RICHARDSON BIGSBY-OIIAMBERLIN, OFEASTBOURNE, ENGLAND.

PH OTO'G RAPHlC-CAM ERA SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,521, dated June 12,1900,

Application filed April 18, 1898.

T0 [ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RICHARDSON BIGsBY-OHAMBERLIN, a subject ofthe Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residingat West Rocks, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, in the county of Sussex,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supportsfor Photographic Cameras; and I hereby declare the following to beafull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to an improved support for photographic cameras,the object be ing to enable an operator to take panoramic or extendedviews in sections by any ordinary hand-camera, the said sectional viewswhen printed being adapted for joining together to form oneconnected-picture.

My improved support, together with the adjustment of the camera therein,is capable of movement upon two planes at right angles to each other,one plane, that of the camerasupport, being horizontal, or approximatelyso, according to the leveling of the stand or support, while the otherplane, being at right angles thereto, is vertical or approximatelyvertical, and this is produced by a pivotal movement of the camera uponhorizontal piv-' ots carried by the said support. The two movements areseparate and are worked independently of each other.

The form of the support requires variation to enable it to be attachedto various shapes or arrangements of hand-cameras without, however,departing from the nature of the invention.

In the further description of this invention reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of asupport for a hand-camera, the camera being indicated by dotted lines;and Fig. 2 is a plan of the support.

A base a is provided, which may in itself form the top plate of atripod, the said base acting as a horizontal bearing to a frame-piece b,fitting thereon. The'frame-piece b is capable of turning around upon thebase Ct as a horizontal plane to all points of the compass, and aset-screw c is arranged in the base a to Serial No. 677,987. (No modrl.)

secure the frame-piece b at any desired point by clamping it inposition. By means of a mark or pointer on either a or b and a scaleupon the other part, as indicated in Fig. 2, the frame-piece b can beturned to a prede termined degree on the scale for the purpose of takinga view and moved'from there to another predetermined point to takeanother view, and so on, if necessary, all around the horizon; Forexample, if the lens will take an angular view of, say, seventy-fivedegrees, but it is considered desirable to take each of a horizontalseries of pictures of sixty degrees, then by taking six successive viewsat intervals of sixty degrees on the horizontal scale a complete pictureof the horizon can be obtained by subsequently pasting together thepositives, each of which would of course be trimmed to suit the saidangle of sixty de- 7 grees before joining them together.

The hand-camera is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, with side armsof the framepiece I) bent and extending upward from the base a, so as toembrace the sides of the camera. A pivotal screw Z is adapted to work inand near the upper extremity of each of said side arms, and the camerais so placed between and adjusted on the points of the screws Z thattheir axial line passes through the optical center of the camera-lens ina horizontal plane. At the same time, and when the camera, with itsstand, is leveled, a Vertical line extending upward from the center orpivotal point of the base a will intersect the said optical center, sothat any movement upon the horizontal plane will cause the center of thelens or the optical center to pivot upon the pivotal point a, on whichthe horizontal movement takes place, the two points being on the samevertical line, Also any movement of the camera-box on the points of thetwo screws Z (and therefore a movement of the optical-center on thevertical plane) will take place on the horizontal line passing throughthepoints of the screw and the said optical center, and this assumes theproper leveling of the camera. Should, however, this not be exactly thecase, the result will make very little difference in many cases and maybe disregarded in practice, if approximately correct. The screw e is forelevating desired point when taking a series of views on the verticalplane.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-- A supportfor photographic hand-cameras consisting of a base-plate a adapted tofit on the top of a tripod or equivalent stand, a frame-piece I),attached to the said base-plate by a screw 0, the said frame-piecehaving two radial arms extending across the base-plate with their endsbent up at right angles and adapted to receive and embrace the twoopp'osite sides of a hand-camera, each end being fitted with a screw topivotally support said camera on a line passing through its op-' ticalcenter, and a third radial arm extending rearward from said base with anelevatingscrew 8 therein arranged and operating to vary the angularposition of said camera 011 said pivotal screws as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ai'l'lx my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM RICHARDSON BIGSBY -ClIAliIBE RLIN.

Witnesses:

E. KABERRY, CHAS. Rocnn.

